I thought about putting this in the Hardware topic, but thought it didn't really fit..

Anyways, while I was searching for CF cards, I came across this PDA Phone that has most of the things that have been talked about for the PPZ, It doesn't, however have much internal storage, and no CF slots.

I thought about putting this in the Hardware topic, but thought it didn't really fit..

Anyways, while I was searching for CF cards, I came across this PDA Phone that has most of the things that have been talked about for the PPZ, It doesn't, however have much internal storage, and no CF slots.

Alot of the inspiration for the PPZ's internal phone systems and configuration is coming from the XDAE/Jasjar/Q9000/MDA-Pro/Universal (Yep, still the same phone.) It's the main competition with the PPZ because of the rapidly maturing OpenEmbedded port. Add to that the pricetag and you see why we want to prove to the big Corps that we can do alot better.

It's not a design that'll make anyone money to sell, because we're not manufacturing large enough volumes of them, and we're selling only parts to avoid the need to have it tested by the various goverment sales tests.

But it will show the manufacturing corporations such as HTC, HP, Sharp and Dell. . . That they don't have hidden trade-secrets that prevent us from doing it ourselves, and if they want to keep their customers from DIY, they should buck up their ideas about the limited feature-set concept.

i have used the k-jam for awhile and it was quite nice, it is even more tempting now that there is an 802.11g patch out for it. the mini is nice as well but i could not live without a keyboard

actually i stole the GSM thing from the XDA people, never was my idea

i bet you could hack a CF card into it if need be, one of the things i discovered with the x30 is that you can remove the wireless out of it to get acsess to a socket that has CF and a serial port on it. if you bought the lower end model then you didnt lose anything, however if you added one wire you could have had wifi and CF at the same time

oh well, the universal or the k-jjam are my backup right until i start spending money on this project

at the moment, I think the only way the pocket penguin will fly (in as much as penguins fly) is to produce a custom case around the new Nokia N800, turning it into a clamshell, using an internal usb hub to add the peripherals such as keyboard, trackpad/joystick, gps, and a gsm/gprs/edge/3g module.

the N800, it seems to me, would be a great motherboard + display unit for this. if there were a clamshell version or clippable keyboard like the HTC Athena, it'd be a dream machine. If Nokia did two slip covers, a thin/normal one, the other thicker with a keyboard, I'd be queueing up to buy it!

yeah its time for action, there is just 2 things holding me back, one is the "windows" problem and another is the PCB software. the free version of egale just dosent cut it. still thinking about how to solve this

and before you ask, yes putting windows on this machine is a pain, it is not easy at all and not because i have linux on there already (althogh compatibility can be an issue. might see if my programs work under wine (now why didnt i think of that eairier)